Arguments ought to be based on logic, not emotion.

While I am in full support of free expression, I cannot stand to see intolerance dramatized for the sole purpose of dredging up vapid pathos.

This advertisement may seem rife with ingenuous motivation and yet, in response to each of the minimalistic, dire, and gravitas-ridden statements made, I have to ask:

-How is anyone's life exempt from their country's government? If you'd rather not have these issues impact you, depart from engaging the system. In other words, you can't just have your cake and eat it to. Others have a right to a slice of the same desert. (Yes, it's a double entendre.)

-Which of your freedoms will be taken away? Freedom to deny equal rights to an entire naturally-occurring population? Freedom to discriminate against those who hold different tenets of faith and morality than you dictate?

-What kind of a California doctor are you and why are you vilifying gay marriage as opposed to voicing your outrage at being discriminated against in the workplace for your faith? (Might you be seeing just what LGBTQ people across this nation are experiencing on a daily basis?)

-How is it you're being punished and by what form of government? Additionally, as a member of any church group oughtn't you be concerned about the separation of church and state that this country's founding predicated?

-You're not helpless, you're a mother. You have the responsibility and role of being the core of your offspring's education. Have open conversations and answer questions with honesty instead of obsequious and fearful muddlings of the truth. And if it's really all that problematic, send them to private school. And to take it one step further, what is so wrong with gay marriage that you're afraid of your child learning to be accepting and open-minded? Might you be afraid that this horrible, oppressive public school is actually permitting your children to begin to grasp the necessity for seeing life from more than one interest group's persepctive? Namely, the church. And on the subject of this menacing public school, according to current literature it is experiencing the same plummeting academic achievement levels and lowered test scores as schools nationwide. These decreasing academic standards are the result of education setbacks caused by lack of funding due to poorly managed government monies. Monies alocated to prolonging a profit-based war and the public acceptance thereof.

-In pointing out the malcontentment of same sex couples who have been "living as they wish" are you blatantly ignoring the fact that same sex couples are discriminated against on enumerable counts? What of legal release of health care information to a same sex significant other? Yes, it's possible in some cases but the process for obtaining permissions is demonstrably more difficult and includes aspects of inquiry that go far beyond limitations put upon attempts at accessing the same kinds of information by heterosexual significant others. And that's only one example. As for "those advocates [who] want to change the way [you] live", advocacy is meant to be an effort at broadening perspectives. If your perspectives are narrow enough that they limit your life then maybe you ought to contemplate how reconsidering said perspectives might in fact open you to newer, more collectivist understandings of how to coincide with a nation full of different perspectives, a nation heralded for its embrace of people from all walks of life and all cultural and religious and lifestyle backgrounds.

-You also have no choice on whether or not you are legally allowed to own slaves. I'd be quite incited by that too if I were a bigot.

-And finally, you call yourselves a "rainbow coalition"? That's just insulting. It's ubiquitously understood that the rainbow is a symbol of queer interests and while it is still a notion free to be utilized by any and all people, its present status is as a token of acceptance and understanding. Not discrimination, stigmatization, or hate- and fear-mongering.
You say you're coming together in love. Well what kind of love rebukes those who wish to embrace the same traditional demonstrations of that very concept as all other members of their society based solely on an argument of difference in sexual desire.

How is gay marriage hurting you?
How is it hurting your families and your interests?
I'm quite sure tithes will maintain themselves, value systems and morality will still hold true (to whatever degree anyone might already be applying themselves), and if anything, the marriage industry will boom from the gargantuan number of couples suddenly granted the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts.

On an economic note, gay couples have been proven to have higher incomes, less financial requirements, and more expendable cash. Want to stimulate this faltering economy? Then let go of discriminatory and fearful ignorance.

Alright, I'm finished...






...for now.